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Simón Rodríguez discusses the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, who dedicated it to US president Donald Trump.| New Politics
The movie accurately shows what goes on inside the military's nuclear war chain of command and among the president and his advisors. Let's get teachers, their unions, and others in education to talk about it. The post President Has Six Minutes to Decide on Nuclear War Launch appeared first on New Politics.| New Politics
Mexico remains very close to the colonialist state of Israel, with which it is a close collaborator. Israel has an embassy, a trade office, and four honorary consulates in Mexico. It actively promotes Israeli companies, which export the tools for war with the full backing of the Mexican government and army. The post Mexico and Israel’s shared thirst for war appeared first on New Politics.| New Politics
Simón Rodríguez discusses the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, who dedicated it to US president Donald Trump.| New Politics
On Tuesday evening, Oct. 28, Pope Leo made a forceful appeal for peace at Rome’s Colosseum and in the presence of representatives of the world’s main religions. The post Pope Leo at interfaith peace meeting: ‘War is never holy’ appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
At a time of rising antisemitism stemming from Israel’s war, Leo adopted as his own the Vatican’s official position abhorring antisemitism as he marked the 60th anniversary of a landmark Vatican document that revolutionized the Catholic Church’s relations with Jews.| America Magazine
Winter shelters and clean water will be top priorities for Catholic Relief Services as massive humanitarian effort begins in Gaza. The post Catholic Relief Services is on the ground in Gaza as humanitarian surge begins appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
The editors of America have been critical of the actions of President Trump regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since he retook office in January, but last week’s accord is a moment where credit should be given where credit is due. The post Trump’s pressure on Israel made the Gaza peace plan possible. He’ll need to keep it up for a lasting peace. appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
The Gaza Catastrophe: The Genocide in World-Historical Perspective by Gilbert Achcar (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2025) Gilbert Achcar is a prolific and perceptive socialist intellectual of Lebanese origins whose writings over the last two decades and more have illuminated the most| New Politics
A Coming Hell on Earth?| Vox Populi
“Trump is threatening to go to war with an American city,” notes Gov. Pritzer “This is not normal.”| Vox Populi
After years reporting from post-authoritarian states, I now see the same patterns in my own backyard—where justice has collapsed, truth is suppressed, and power no longer answers to the people.| Vox Populi
They feared the olive trees — the trees that know, more than anyone, who the true owners of this land are.| Vox Populi
An appalling decision by federal judge Trevor McFadden was filed on August 4. The idea that Jews are a “race” makes one’s skin crawl.| New Politics
The bombs fell in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City around 2 a.m. on July 14, killing more than two dozen people. The IDF hasn't answered why it bombed the Arafat home or barred rescue workers.| New Politics
More than offering an escape, fantasy worlds can also show what courage looks like when the odds are stacked against you.| Vox Populi
If Mark Twain were alive today, he would certainly have written a novel about Donald Trump. After all, his 1873 novel, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, distinctly caught a nineteenth-century versio…| Vox Populi
The Trump administration revives institutionalized torture.| Vox Populi
you cannot separate the job from the house from the rent from the earth from the food from the healthcare from the water from the transit from the war from the schools from the prisons from the war…| Vox Populi
The Good and the Bad in Media Coverage Now| Vox Populi
President Gustavo Petro authorized a “socio-judicial conversation” with the EGC, Colombia’s largest paramilitary organization. According to a presidential decree, this conversation seeks to convince the EGC’s top commanders of the…| Colombia News | Colombia Reports
Historically, the movement of people has always spread disease. We are taught as children about the Black Death that killed a one third of Europe’s population. Those initial introductions to the de…| Reflections on War & Society
A spat at the UN Security Council shows the contrast between two very different approaches to war and to peace [Originally published on Alex Krainer’s Substack] On 26 October 2023 at the…| The Naked Hedgie
UK’s leading establishment figures are gung-ho promoting World War III. What’s behind the agenda? Last October I published an article titled “Britain’s secret diplomacy and …| The Naked Hedgie
In his address to the National Press Club yesterday (14 March), Sy Hersh shared a few important insights. Yesterday evening, Seymour Hersh addressed the National Press Club in New York. The event w…| The Naked Hedgie
